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The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.

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… been a very nice Jewishfamily. My father was director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. I had a brother and a sister. My mother, what I heard and would…

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… investigated his brother’s wife but he didn’t. That may mean that the family was angry that he had married a non-Jewish woman or something like that. Anyway Meir…

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…. Her father had a successful family lumber business. She was the youngest of four daughters and a son. After World War I, her family had to move to…

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… change with the establishment of the Nuremberg laws when Jola was forced to attend an all Jewish school. One night in 1938, her family was driven out of…

…Maria Rosenbloom, born on December 26, 1918 in Kolomyia, Poland (Ukraine), describes her Orthodox Jewishfamily; learning the violin and playing it…

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… always for the Polish and for some of the Jewishfamilies too. But my father did more than this, handling the people from the city, but from all over they…

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… them. Renia’s brother married this girl after the war. Renia describes instances of betrayal and the family’s miraculous escapes. During the Warsaw…

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… childhood in Wolomin (approximately 30 km east of Warsaw); her father, Sama* Jabokowsky*, mother Blima*, and her extended family; moving into the ghetto in…

…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, acquired from JewishFamily and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and…

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… her brother, Marian (nicknamed Mietek), who was nine years older than she. Nelly’s entire extended family lived in Warsaw - this included four aunts and…

…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, acquired from JewishFamily and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and…

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… up, but the Jews were always blamed for the violence. He went to a Socialist school along with other Jewish boys. The Jewish youth were relegated to…

…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, acquired from JewishFamily and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and…

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… about 50,000 people called Bielsko where cloth was the main manufactured product. She went to a private Jewish school. In 1937 or 1938, she reports that a…

…Sophie Koper, born on May 5, 1916 in Moscow, Russia, discusses how her family, even though Jewish, was allowed to stay in Moscow because her mother…

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… that I -- I -- that I am Jewish, but that’s all. It’s a [indecipherable] up to -- Q: Right. A: -- yeah, up to -- up to here. I tried to go to synagogue…

… Roosevelt was Jewish; his family receiving three Japanese visas from Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Consul; paying 600 dollars to get Soviet transit visas…

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… assimilated in the Polish culture, he -- although the family was Jewish, they regarded themselves first as Poles and second as Jews. Remember that in the Warsaw…

…, and working for a German family under a false name; meeting her husband on a kibbutz; her children; Jewish identity; communication about the Holocaust…

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… that I have a family. I didn’t tell them that my family was killed, you know. Why would my family be killed if I’m not Jewish? If I’m Polish, they…

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… New York? CLAIRE: I grew up in New York City, yeah. And George went to school in New York, and he went to school in Florida and California. His family…

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… policeman, a Jewish policeman, and he walked back and forth. I met him and I knew that he is going, so I asked him to find out about this family. So after two…

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…, let's say, it was 500 families. Is maybe was 400 familiesJewish, and the rest was Polish. Mostly Jewish. INT: And of those Jewish people, were most of…

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… before? SURVSTS: We lived in Downingtown. In other words, it means a great deal for both of us to have our daughter raised Jewish and to have our families…

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…, Germany to Hedwig Guther and Moishe Lejb Kotz. His Jewish father had used the name Dabrowski during the war as he hid as a Gentile in Warsaw using a forged…

…’s Hasidic background; the history of Hasidism; the importance of music within her family and having a strong Jewish identity from an early age; her family…

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… and having a strong Jewish identity from an early age; her family members and history; being an only child; the many rabbis in her family; growing up…

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.